The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of lifeFields, Osgood, 1870 |
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... common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men . Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men ; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid , as of health , eternal youth , fine senses , arts of ...
... common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men . Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men ; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid , as of health , eternal youth , fine senses , arts of ...
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... common men ; there are no common men . All men are at last of a size ; and true art is only possible , on the convic- tion that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere . Fair play , and an open field , and freshest laurels to all who ...
... common men ; there are no common men . All men are at last of a size ; and true art is only possible , on the convic- tion that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere . Fair play , and an open field , and freshest laurels to all who ...
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... common pottery ; but the sense of the pictures is sacred , and you may still read them transferred to the walls of the world . For a time , our teachers serve us personally , as metres or milestones of progress . Once they were angels ...
... common pottery ; but the sense of the pictures is sacred , and you may still read them transferred to the walls of the world . For a time , our teachers serve us personally , as metres or milestones of progress . Once they were angels ...
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... common sense is his warrant and qualification to be the world's interpreter . He has reason , as all the philosophic and poetic class have : but he has , also , what they have not , - this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry ...
... common sense is his warrant and qualification to be the world's interpreter . He has reason , as all the philosophic and poetic class have : but he has , also , what they have not , - this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry ...
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... common sense ; or arithmetic ; we speak as boys , and much of our impatient criticism of the dialectic , I suspect , is no better . The criticism is like our impatience of miles , when we are in a hurry ; but it is still best that a ...
... common sense ; or arithmetic ; we speak as boys , and much of our impatient criticism of the dialectic , I suspect , is no better . The criticism is like our impatience of miles , when we are in a hurry ; but it is still best that a ...
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Página 458 - Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance ; but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness, — whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs.
Página 275 - That it be a receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy or sciences, but are more common and of a higher stage.
Página 491 - ... and doings he must obey; he fancies himself poor, orphaned, insignificant. The mad crowd drives hither and thither, now furiously commanding this thing to be done, now that. What is he that he should resist their will, and think or act for himself? Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract him. And when, by and by, for an instant, the air clears and the cloud lifts a little, there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones, — they alone with him...
Página 47 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Página 165 - I found the house amid desolate heathery .hills, where the lonely scholar nourished his mighty heart. Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need to hide from his readers, and as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London. He was tall and gaunt, with a...
Página 324 - The German and Irish millions, like the Negro, have a great deal. of guano in their destiny. They are ferried over the Atlantic, and carted over America, to ditch and to drudge, to make corn cheap, and then to lie down prematurely to make a spot of green grass on the prairie.
Página 110 - Schlegel, that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected. It was not until the nineteenth century, whose speculative genius is a sort of living Hamlet, that the tragedy of Hamlet could find such wondering readers. Now, literature, philosophy and thought are Shakspearized. His mind is the horizon beyond which, at present, we do not see.
Página 415 - Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect, is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love, is felt to be done for love.
Página 152 - I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the highest grounds from which genius has spoken. He has not worshipped the highest unity ; he is incapable of a self-surrender to the moral sentiment. There are nobler strains in poetry than any he'has sounded. There are writers poorer in talent, whose tone is purer, and more touches the heart. Goethe can never be dear to men. His is not even the devotion to pure truth ; but to truth for the sake of culture.
Página 430 - Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.